Happy New Year from Imaging Neuroscience - here is the 2025 montage, from 440 papers. Full size montage PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/19gjQ...

Make it your New Year resolution to add a #workingmemory dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.

Time-zone-appropriate "Happy New Year"s to all y'all!

Never thought I'd need to explain to someone that "tools" don't have to all match based on brand. You don't need to swim in a certain brand ecosystem, dude. You can have a laptop running linux (f**k Windows), an iPad, and an android phone. Tools don't have to match, they have to work, you know?

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

When you hear "deep and crisp and even" these days, is your first thought of snow... or of pizza? On this week's Rare Earth we discuss the joys of winter, what nature (esp hedgehogs!) is up to in the cold, and how our relationship with winter is changing. Listen here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Tracking coordinated cellular dynamics directly from images -- New method paper by labmates @bgraedel.bsky.social & @macdobry.bsky.social ! Python package & @napari.org plugin, all the good stuff: Paper: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... Code: github.com/pertzlab/arc... Plugin: github.com/pertzlab/arc...

'Tis the season for reading recommendations and o-ho-ho-ho, do I need to STRONGLY recommend Pieter De Buysser's play, "Book Burning"! (It's published with another play by him called "Landscape with Skiproads" which I've not read yet, so no comments on it for now.)

This is part of the reason why I teach & make YouTube videos on how AI is used in science: I don't want all the baggage from genAI & chatbots to prevent the public from supporting or trusting better & more grounded forms of AI.

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

We don't actually trust AI. We trust the companies behind it. As Maria Antoniak notes, every "private" chat flows through corporate systems with long histories of data misuse. If we care about AI ethics, we need to name power, not anthropomorphize models.

Evening routine: 1. brew tea 2. sip tea 3. hate tuberculosis

get your kid hooked on throwing money in the trash as early as possible

Generate a heartwarming advert for your bookshop:

There's a source of relief in videos like this. For so long we have had professionals who are afraid of calling out the idiocy of billionaires, because they view it as "unprofessional" to have opinions and ethics. And that's why communicators like @acollierastro.bsky.social are especially important

Peaking in high school: tragic Peaking in preschool because your parents are paleontologists and you know all the dinosaurs: magic

The first step in the ~14,500 km journey (as the crow flies) to Wasa was a taxi to the airport. The second is a flight to Oslo*. It's masks on time. *Yes, this #fieldwork involves *a lot* of carbon. Let's hope the data is worth it... sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/h...

Researchers extract latent representation of humanity's future from latest AI model

Anyone can publish new ideas even when centralized institutions don't support those ideas. Bluesky really is the printing press, a publisher, and a network of other independent publishers all at once.

A “universal” pattern of cortical brain oscillations may be less ubiquitous than previously proposed. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-waves/...

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

is there a *mr* information?

Your 4 year old doesn't know that you selfishly stole his vaccines and gave him a preventable illness that destroyed his immune system and led to years of suffering. But your 10 year old will google that shit. And they will never forgive you. And you deserve that hate plus more.

The day finally came. The day I heard the sound of a dozen ball-bearings hitting the freaking floor when I pulled out one of the drawers.

Netflix limited series about the tortured genius artist who created old VHS covers

Here's a little round up of my 2025 year in #DataViz featuring 💜 Some of my favourite #RStats charts 💜 A look back at 5 years of #TidyTuesday 💜 Links to cool #QuartoPub and visualisation things I've seen this year Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/year-in...

Elusive Cures is 6 months old today! In the post below, I told you about what was involved in making it happen (with gratitude to everyone involved). Here's an update about what's happened since. /1 bsky.app/profile/nico...

imagine gleefully pushing a product to use and announcing to the customer "THIS IS NOT ACCURATE" and then forcing them to use it. the innovation will continue until moral improves

Sam Altman continuing his run of saying the dumbest things I have ever heard and turning that into a trillion dollar business. Malicious optimism or idiocy you decide.

"Who raised you?" "A brainless human operator taking orders from LLMs."

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Laurin Mordhorst, Siawoosh Mohammadi, et al: MRI-scale histology validates spatial sensitivity of in-vivo MRI-based axon radius estimation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

One day, I'll probably stop comparing myself with people who have completed their professional training when I wasn't even aware of the fact that cells are a thing. "Today is not that day. Tomorrow does not look good either."

live long and prosper (if you have a billion dollars)

Feeling guilty about the never-ending pile of unread books taking space on your shelf? Just say you are practicing tsundoku! Wikipedia's tsundoku article is considered a stub, or a very basic description of the topic. Consider improving it with reliable sources ➡️ w.wiki/7vhv

Oh... oh no...

Cool PI, great lab, vibrant city for science! What else one needs!

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

A new review, led by researchers at @uclqsion.bsky.social, outlines how cutting-edge biomarkers could enable earlier, more accurate diagnosis and treatment of dementia with Lewy bodies.

This is lore-accurate. Clerics are only proficient with bludgeoning weapons.

I'm afraid the screenshots in my gallery do tell a story.

Final versions of paper & code: 📜 Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=573... 💻 Code: github.com/hadivafaii/I... ✅ What's new in the code: We added a stand-alone Colab notebook implementation — a great starting point if you want to understand the iP-VAE model and train your own. 🧵[2/4]

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books. Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Petition to change neuroskyence feed emoji from 🧠📈 to 🧟🧠 to avoid the BTC/finance bro's posting

Geologic Core Sample xkcd.com/3171/

popEVE is out in Nature Genetics! 🎉 We built a proteome-wide model that combines cross-species and human population variation to rank missense variants by disease severity and help diagnose rare genetic disorders. rdcu.be/eRu7K

200-page document has a 100-page appendix. God help us all ...

Letting you know, because I live in Tehran. We have a drought, we have many more problems. But you know what THE problem is right now? The Air.